Re: 7.0 installation on z50 ends in db

["Sevan / Venture37" <venture37%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 26 October 2015 at 01:26, Jun Ebihara <jun%soum.co.jp@localhost> wrote:
> From: Alexander Bochmann <ab%lists.gxis.de@localhost>
> Subject: Re: 7.0 installation on z50 ends in db
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:19:23 +0100
>
>> ...on Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 01:41:49AM +0200, Alexander Bochmann wrote:
>>  > did anyone try to install NetBSD 7.0 on their z50 yet?
>>  >  > Stopped in pid 104.1 (tar) at   801d5634:   lw   v0,8(s0)
>> Stepping back through releases, in both 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 tar
>> randomly segfaults while unpacking sets during installation.
>> No kernel panic though.
>> Full install of 5.2.3 seems to have none of those problems.
>
> I make sysinst on Sigmarion with 7.0 201510071630Z from nyftp.
> (now 20151007 has gone and current URL)
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201510251800Z/hpcmips/
>
> sysinst ...
> http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5285135
>
> It can boot and login.
> http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5285149
>
> dmesg:
> https://github.com/ebijun/NetBSD/blob/master/dmesg/hpcmips/sigmarion

Not the case on WorkPad Z50, any lengthy disk I/O operation will
result in a panic, for example: extracting base.tgz during install,
generating font cache during boot, periodic script running to generate
makemandb.
This was observed with yesterdays install HEAD snapshot.


Sevan / Venture37